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keeper

 
 
/ˈkiːpər/ noun [C]

Translation

LOOK AFTER someone who looks after a place and the things, people, or animals there
bekçi, bakıcı
a park keeper19921875
SPORT informal short for goalkeeper (= the player in a sport such as football who tries to stop the ball going into the goal)
kaleci
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(Definition of keeper noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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